Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 2 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 4 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 5 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 6 | He made himself a warm , milky drink and sat down to work . |
| 7 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 8 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 9 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 10 | This he did , and when he had learned to ride it he realized what a radical improvement it would be if he could propel it without putting his feet on the ground . |
| 11 | When the rebels formed a provisional National Defence Junta a week after the start of the rising , Franco was not a member , although he became one a few weeks later . |
| 12 | He asked them a few times . |
| 13 | While he waited he asked us a few basic and searching questions about our discovery . |
| 14 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 15 | Yeah I only put in for three thousand , he got me a nine . |
| 16 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 17 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 18 | He slanted her a quick look . |
| 19 | He slanted her a speculative glance . |
| 20 | He flung her a savage look and asked abruptly , ‘ Do you still hate me ? ’ |
| 21 | The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look . |
| 22 | He flung her a furious look . |
| 23 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 24 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 25 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 26 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 27 | ‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked . |
| 28 | At that time , he had offered to give her more extensive treatments — apparently , he found her a promising subject but she had n't had the cold kish to lay out . |
| 29 | He found her a chilly woman . |
| 30 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |